Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Renio S. Mendes, Ervin K. Lenzi, Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot e Luís A. N. Amaral

PLOS ONE – Volume: 8; Issue: 1; Article Number: e54165; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054165

The complexity of chess matches has attracted broad interest since its invention. This complexity and the availability of large number of recorded matches make chess an ideal model […]

José de Los Santos Guerra, Madhuparna Pal, Roney J. Portugal, Luiz F. Cótica, Ivair A. Santos, Ruyan Guo e Amar S. Bhalla

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS – Volume: 114; Issue: 22; Article Number: 224113; DOI: 10.1063/1.4848998

The ferroelectric, magnetic, and magneto-electric properties of a PZT/Ba-hexaferrite (PbZr0.65Ti0.35O3/BaFe12O19) ceramic composite are reported. The expected rhombohedral-PZT and Ba-hexaferrite phases have […]

Marcela F. Silva, Luiz A. S. de Oliveira, Mariani A. Ciciliati, Lais T. Silva, Bruna S. Pereira, Ana A.W. Hechenleitner, Daniela M. F. Oliveira, Kleber R. Pirota, Flavio F. Ivashita, Andra Paesano Jr., J. Martin Pastor, J. I. Perez-Landazabal e Edgardo A. G. Pineda

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS – Volume: 114; Issue: 10; Article Number: 104311; […]

Luis J. Borrero-González, Luiz A. Oliveira Nunes, Giselly S. Bianchi, Francine B. G. Astrath e Mauro L. Baesso

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS – Volume: 114; Issue: 1; Article Number: 013103; DOI: 10.1063/1.4812373

Near-infrared (NIR) quantum cutting (QC) through downconversion (DC) in OH− free Nd3+-Yb3+co-doped low-silica calcium aluminosilicate glasses (LSCAS) was observed. Luminescence and time-resolved measurements allowed the […]

Rodolfo T. de Souza, Cesare Chiccoli, Paolo Pasini, Luiz R. Evangelista e Claudio Zannoni

MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS – Volume: 576; Issue: 1; Pages: 42-52; DOI: 10.1080/10584587.2013.789678

Nematic samples filling a flat cell or the annular region between two concentric cylinders with hybrid anchoring conditions at the boundaries are investigated by setting up and minimizing their […]

Angela M. Picolloto, Vinicius V. G. Mariucci, Wesley Szpak, Antonio Medina Neto, Mauro L. Baesso, Nelson G. Castelli Astrath, Francine B. G. Astrath, Alailson D. Santos, João C. Silos Moraes e Antonio C. Bento

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS – Volume: 114; Issue: 19; Article Number: UNSP 194701; DOI: 10.1063/1.4829921

The thermal wave method is applied for thermal […]

Luiz R. Evangelista, Ervin K. Lenzi, Giovane Barbero, James R. Macdonald

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS – Volume: 138;  Issue: 11     Article Number: 114702   DOI: 10.1063/1.4794689

The response of an electrolytic cell, in the shape of a slab, is analyzed in the framework of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck model in the limit of full dissociation. Two different types of boundary […]

Valdirlei F. Freitas, Taiana G. M. Bonadio, Gustavo S. Dias, Otávio A. Protzek, Antonio Medina Neto, Luiz F. Cótica, Ivair A. Santos, Ducinei Garcia e José A. Eiras

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS – Volume: 113; Issue: 11; Article Number: 114105; DOI: 10.1063/1.4795766

In this paper, the microscopic mechanism for structural, ferroelectric, and magnetic stabilities in displacive perovskite […]

Diogo Z. Montanher, Valdirlei F. Freitas, José R. Dias Pereira, Luiz F. Cótica, Ducinei Garcia, José A. Eiras e Ivair A. Santos

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS  Volume: 113   Issue: 3     Article Number: 034102   DOI: 10.1063/1.4775796, Published: JAN 2013

The potentialities of BiFeO3-PbTiO3 multiferroic compounds for magnetic-field sensing applications is investigated by characterizing the dynamical magnetoelectric response of […]

Enrico M. Gomes, Rosana R. L. Araújo, Marcelo K. Lenzi, Fernanda R. G. B. Silva e Ervin K. Lenzi

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING – Article Number: 642101; DOI: 10.1155/2013/642101

Heavy metals are widely recognized as being hazardous to human health and environmentally aggressive. The literature reports different approaches for lead removal, for example, water hyacinths. Heavy metal […]